Editor’s note: This is a reprinted column from Jack Purcell’s “On the Journey” archives. It originally appeared in The Star in 2013.
Hardly a week goes by that I don’t either get something by email or see something on TV warning me about the perils of identity theft.
It seems like the whole world out there wants to be me. Just kidding. However, everybody, it seems, wants my Social Security number and my bank account numbers and, of course, my credit card numbers.
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